Words Fail Me category archive

Oh, my.

Republicans defend BP’s wild well.

I guess they like oiled pelicans.

Words fail me.

This is just macabre.

It is also most disrespectful to make such an announcement above one’s smiley-faced campaign picture.

One can argue that the subject of the twit deserved no respect (he was a pretty lousy human being by all indications), but somewhere he has family who do not share his guilt.

Follow the link. Read the whole thing.

R.E. Wall, director of Prescott’s Downtown Mural Project, said he and other artists were subjected to slurs from motorists as they worked on the painting at one of the town’s most prominent intersections.

“We consistently, for two months, had people shouting racial slander from their cars,” Wall said. “We had children painting with us, and here come these yells of (epithet for Blacks) and (epithet for Hispanics).”

Wall said school Principal Jeff Lane pressed him to make the children’s faces appear happier and brighter.

“It is being lightened because of the controversy,” Wall said, adding that “they want it to look like the children are coming into light.”

Lane said that he received only three complaints about the mural and that his request for a touch-up had nothing to do with political pressure. “We asked them to fix the shading on the children’s faces,” he said. “We were looking at it from an artistic view. Nothing at all to do with race.”

City Councilman Steve Blair spearheaded a public campaign on his talk show at Prescott radio station KYCA-AM (1490) to remove the mural.

In a broadcast last month, according to the Daily Courier in Prescott, Blair mistakenly complained that the most prominent child in the painting is African-American, saying: “To depict the biggest picture on the building as a Black person, I would have to ask the question: Why?”

The excuses of those who claim this is not bigotry are lame. They lie, to others and to themselves.

This is all about bigotry.

I’m a Southern Boy. I know the damned code, for Christ’s sake.

Via Jamelle Bouie.

The Boston Globe:

It was back in 1998 that Wakefield, who now stands accused of unethical and irresponsible research, published a medical article suggesting a link between autism and the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. Since then, the research has been discredited by follow-up studies that failed to find a link between the vaccine and the disease. As far back as 2004, 10 of Wakefield’s original co-authors retracted the findings of the article in a letter to The Lancet, the prestigious medical journal where it was initially published. Puzzlingly, it took the journal six more years to issue its own official retraction, which came out in February.

In the meantime, persons have died because of the anti-vaccination hysteria that this bozo started.

Yeah.

Right.

The state health department is investigating 10 cases of mercury exposure linked to a homemade “skin lightening” cream imported from Mexico.

26,000 chicks in one building.

I remember going with my father to meet the train to pick up a shipment of peepers. It was nothing like 26,000 or even 2600. Maybe 260:

Authorities say 26,000 birds were lost after an electrical malfunction caused a fire that destroyed a poultry house west of Bridgeville.

I’ve driven past hundreds of those things.

26,000.

Wow.

My brother works for Ag, but I don’t know that he’s seen the inside of one of those places. His branch has to do with conservation, not chickens.

Attracting questionable company.

It is difficult not to think that there is a screw loose:

Plastic human fetus dolls – soft, in pink and brown, and about 4 inches long – have been handed out at Oakwood Elementary School by an employee who was put on administrative leave Thursday over the situation.

The dolls, which were distributed over weeks or months, are not authorized by the division as instructional materials, spokeswoman Elizabeth Thiel Mather said Thursday.

The employee has been sent home pending investigation.

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The country slants to the southwest. Everything loose rolls to California.

Field discusses primaries and colors.

What he has to say about primaries is, in my opinion, right on.

What he recounts about colors is pretty damned disgusting.

Jeez. Some people object. Wonder why.

Beyond disgusting.

I have a friend, my once and again best friend, whose father was saved from Auschwitz by Raoul Wallenberg. She still has copies of the paperwork that saved her father’s life.

Had his life not been saved, she would not have been born and I would have missed her friendship.

Is she one too many for Pat Buchanan?

Is there a depth of bigotry and prejudice that the Republican Party and its supporters are not willing to plumb?

I’ll stop now. Another sentence leads to language I prefer not to use in this forum.

Pah!

And the children suffer (emphasis added):

The head of education for the Boston Archdiocese offered Thursday to help find a different Catholic school for a boy denied acceptance at a Hingham Catholic school because his parents are gay.

I am continually amazed at how persons keeping missing the point of the whole “love thy neighbor as thyself” thing. They keep interpreting it as “love they neighbor as long as he’s like thyself.”

Video from Waterkeepers. It is difficult to watch it all the way through.

Via Facing South.

May 10, 2010 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Words Fail Me | Bookmark this post

The usual line up of positive thinkers (they positively think I’m going to pay to listen to them) attracts a new member.

I positively think no wisecrack can do this justice. This is its own one-liner.

(What the old man actually said was, “He calls hisself a lawyer.”)

What could more indicate that Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University is about neither liberty nor learning than this?

Words fail me.

Full Disclosure: Mrs. State Senator was my boss for three years of summer jobs.

But what if I don’t have a chicken?

Aside: The time in which we can pack over the ridge into the next valley, establish a homestead, dig a privy, and feed ourselves off the land while making our own buckskin clothes is long gone.

Furrfu.

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The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has 42 more animals in its care after a woman in Fredericksburg gave up 93 of the dogs and cats she had been keeping in a single-wide trailer.